STEVE ENGLEHART is best known for writing for such comics series as "Spider-Man," "Captain America," "Superman," "The Fantastic Four," and "Batman "for DC and Marvel Comics, and for his novels "The Point Man "and "The Long Man." He has been named Favorite Writer at the Eagle Awards, and has also won an Inkpot Award for his comics work. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area, where he is currently working on a new Max August novel.
Praise for "The Plain Man""Long before Buffy and Angel took up the
good fight, long before Dresden began his Files, Max August was out
there all alone, our point man in keeping the mundane world safe
from the supernatural one. Now, after too long a hiatus, Max August
is back with a vengeance!"--Bill Willingham, bestselling author of
"Fables" "Max August isn't invincible but he never ages, a handy
side-effect he picked up from studying alchemy under a 500-year old
Master who's now dead. Pam Blackwell is new to alchemy and is just
learning the range of her magickal abilities. Max and Pam - along
with others who have strong magickal talents - have dedicated
themselves to fighting the FRC, a nine-member assembly bent on
controlling the world. When they get word that two members of the
FRC plan on attending Wickr - a Burning Man-like festival held in
the Nevada desert - Max and Pam set out, determined to get
information from them. Little do they know that the FRC has already
planned their own deadly fireworks show and Max and Pam are running
out of time to stop them."The Plain Man" is the third novel in the
Max August series and although it references events and characters
from the first two books, the flashbacks are more for flavor and
color as Englehart's latest novel is perfectly capable of standing
on its own. With a well-developed magickal system and a cast of
intriguing (and sometimes bizarre) characters, Englehart provides
the perfect vehicle for a rambunctious and enjoyable
joyride."--"San Francisco Book Review" "This is a worthy successor
to the first Max August books. Steve Englehart has created a series
of rip-roaring, page turning, pulp tomes that function as teaching
tools about the current state of incipient fascism in American
politics and the uses of the imagination and the occult
therein.Think "Carolyn Casey meets Jeff Sharlet." Think "J.K.
Rowling meets Ian Fleming." What if the hippy radicals really could
have levitated the Pentagon during the 1968 ritual exorcism, and
the Pentagon fought back with warlocks of their own? This is
radical, impassioned, intelligent, fun stuff. Become an Alchemist!
Read Max August!"--Brad Rader, Emmy Award-winning animation artist
"Steve Englehart crams it all in his latest urban fantasy novel The
Plain Man, including wizards/alchemists, demons, shape-shifters,
totems, an ageless gypsy, telepaths, astral bodies, world
conspirators, and other assorted beings."--"SFRevu" Praise for "The
Long Man" "For an almost superhuman span of time Steve Englehart
has been blowing the minds of readers around the world--including
my own. "The Long Man" adds another dazzling burst of storytelling
power to the ongoing display of his brilliance."--Michael Chabon,
"New York Times" bestselling author "Steve Englehart was one of the
first authors I ever read. With The Long Man, he proves that even
thirty years later, he still has the touch. I'm young again."--Brad
Meltzer, "New York Times" bestselling author "Englehart, one of the
best writers in comics, brings all his imagination and flair to
this exciting tale of mystery, magic and suspense."--Max Allan
Collins, bestselling author of "Road To Perdition" "Steve Englehart
has finally continued the story of the Point Man, and it's about
damned time. A crackling mystical thriller."--Peter David,
bestselling author of the Dark Tower comics Praise for "The Point
Man" "The writing is solid and compelling, evidencing all the skill
of a craftsman who has spent the last decade learning how to build
an episodic story in the "To Be Continued" environs of comic books,
yet never giving in to cartoony excess. In "The Point Man,"
Englehart never lets the absence of pictures slow his story. It's a
shame he hasn't written more prose since."--"Bookgasm.com" "I
haven't read a novel like this since "The Exorcist.""--Robert Anton
Wilson, co-author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy "Full of reach and
astonishment....Few working writers alive have [Steve Englehart's]
sense of sound and of scene." --Theodore Sturgeon, author of "More
Than Human" "Englehart comes up out of nowhere, or the Bay area or
some place, to explode on us with a first novel that places itself
way up there with some of the finest in the genre. "The Point Man"
is as exciting a slam-banger as you'll find this year. But it's
much more than that. The magic is most magical, and enormous to
boot, and the mystery and the tension will not release
you."--Twilight Zone Magazine
Praise for "The Long Man" "For an almost superhuman span of time
Steve Englehart has been blowing the minds of readers around the
world--including my own. "The Long Man "adds another dazzling burst
of storytelling power to the ongoing display of his
brilliance."
--Michael Chabon, "New York Times "bestselling author
"Steve Englehart was one of the first authors I ever read. With
"The Long Man," he proves that even thirty years later, he still
has the touch. I'm young again."
--Brad Meltzer, "New York"" Times "bestselling author
"Englehart, one of the best writers in comics, brings all his
imagination and flair to this exciting tale of mystery, magic and
suspense."
--Max Allan Collins, bestselling author of "Road To Perdition"
"Steve Englehart has finally continued the story of the Point Man,
and it's about damned time. A crackling mystical thriller."
--Peter David, bestselling author of the "Dark Tower" comics
Praise for "The Point Man
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